This beautifully designed volume offers a unique reader's companion to the most beautiful poetry of the Bible, newly translated by a renowned poet and biblical scholar.
Kugel's commentaries... are marvelous fresh, original, deeply thought, deeply felt. They are the responses to the Bible of a scholar who, far more than just a scholar, is above all a reader and knows that, even more than knowledge, taste and discrimination, the most important thing to bring to a text is oneself: not a part of oneself, but the whole, entirely focused and entirely open, ready to give and take all. To be able to read in this way is a rare gift.